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If you listen to any of the tech podcasts coming out of the Valley, absolutely everyone is piling criticism onto Facebook. Everyone except Google, who is keeping its head down as it builds next gen weapons platforms for the US military and censorship and surveillance technology for the Chinese.

If you listen to any of the tech podcasts coming out of the Valley, absolutely everyone is piling criticism onto Facebook. Everyone except Google, who is keeping its head down as it builds next gen weapons platforms for the US military and censorship and surveillance technology for the Chinese.

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YouTube algorithms have under fire since last winter, the thing is at the top of the Alphabet corporate pyramid are ties to the state department...

NEVERENDING BOOK OF SHAME
According to a trove of internal emailsfrom 2012 to 2015, Facebook was giving special treatment (i.e. access to user data) to companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Lyft. This is a big deal because in 2014, the social network publicly announced that it would stop giving apps access to this kind of data.

Did they lie?
Facebook may have continued giving certain companies access to its data in order to build partnerships and make money. As a strategy to get rid of the competition, it didn’t give the special data access to everyone. I.e. Vine, Twitter’s video app, did not get access. Vine shut down in 2016. Facebook acknowledged that it had conversations about how to best build a sustainable business, but insisted it never sold anyone’s data.

Facebook. Again?
The release of Facebook’s internal communications is just the latest fiasco in what has been a terrible, horrible, no good very bad year for the company. In March, the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. You know the one; a political consulting firm gained access to the data of 50 million Facebook users without permission. Facebook has also been in hot water for failing to prevent a Russian misinformation campaign from reaching Americans.